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2009 Chickens and their 2010 Roost

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Victor Davis Hanson, December 31, 2009
Townhall.com

In the coming year, plenty of our chickens will be coming home to roost.

Take foreign relations. In 2009, the new administration assumed that George W. Bush was largely responsible for global tensions. As a remedy, we loudly reached out to our foes and those with whom we had uneasy relationships.

But so far these leaders — like Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Russia’s Vladimir Putin — have only interpreted Barack Obama’s serial goodwill gestures as weaknesses to be exploited. They play the part of the pushy class bully, we the whiny nerd.
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A Smoking Gun Dot In President’s Report On Flight 253 Intel Failures

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Smoking Gun II Update At End!

Very Important Updates Below!

by AJ Strata, December 31, 2009
Strata-Sphere

Today we are gaining more and more clarity on the missteps that led up to a Nigerian Jihadist, who was armed with a powerful and sophisticated stealth bomb and trained by al Qaeda in Yemen, coming seconds away from inflicting a Christmas Day Massacre on Flight 253 over Detroit. And two things are becoming quickly apparent.

First is the glaring fact that news media is clueless about how things like intelligence gathering and the federal bureaucracy work. The root cause of this ignorance is because news reporters are inexperienced and unskilled spectators trying to grasp and convey these complex issues and actions to the public – and they do a terrible job of it. It is also due to the fact many of them are very much emotionally tied to this President as doe-eyed supporters (which is why you need political diversity on stories – not just in news rooms – to generate fair and balanced reporting). Biased and naive reporting seems to be the rule of thumb on this event. Continue reading »

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Mark Tapscott: What is Barack Obama doing? UPDATED: Why Interpol, Mr. President?

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By: Mark Tapscott, December 31, 2009
Washington Examiner

Obama signs Executive Order

Obama signs Executive Order

Some distressing civil liberties questions must be asked about an ever-lengthening list of decisions, proposals, and observations by President Obama.

To begin, Obama is the first president to give an international law enforcement organization like Interpol free rein within the territorial confines of this nation, presumably not excluding the arrest and exportation of Americans to be charged with crimes under international law.
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Now we know what the Obama administration will do with a ticking time bomb

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December 31, 2009
Betsy’s Page blog

Whenever people start debating how to treat captured terrorists the show-stopper question: what would you do with a prisoner who knows information about an imminent attack? This is the almost proverbial debate over the ticking time bomb. Well, now we have such a prisoner. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the undie bomber, is such a person. And, as Victoria Toensing points out, he could be a fount of important information.

Abdulmutallab

Abdulmutallab

Where was Abdulmutallab trained? Who trained him? Where is the training facility located? Where is the stash of PETN, the explosive used in the bomb? What are the techniques he was told to use for getting through airport security? Was there a well-dressed man who helped him board the plane without a passport as claimed by another passenger? And, most important, are future attacks planned? Continue reading »

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No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds

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ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009)

No rise in CO2

No rise in CO2

Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.

However, some studies have suggested that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline and that the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions is therefore beginning to increase.
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Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: ‘I was visited by the FBI’

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By Aaron Foley | MLive.com
December 31, 2009, 9:41AM

Lori and Kurt Haskell

Lori and Kurt Haskell

Following up on a visit from FBI officials about an eyewitness account first described to MLive.com, Michigan attorney Kurt Haskell described the visit in comment sections across MLive on Wednesday.

Haskell and his wife, Lori, were aboard Flight 253 when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly tried to destroy the plane. They say another man tried to help Abdulmutallab board the plane in Amsterdam.

Haskell had two detailed posts in two different stories. Here is Part One, originally posted here:

“Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans. Let me explain.
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Top Stories December 31, 2009

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partial eclipse


A Smoking Gun Dot In President’s Report On Flight 253 Intel Failures

Putin Urges US To Share Missile Defense Data

French Constitutional Court Rejects Carbon Tax

Republicans Prepare To Dig In Heels On Clean Water Restoration Act

Obama’s TSA pick plans to ‘join’ security with unions

Twelve Anti-Family Gifts from Congress

Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: ‘I was visited by the FBI’

No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds

Now we know what the Obama administration will do with a ticking time bomb

Mark Tapscott: What is Barack Obama doing? UPDATED: Why Interpol, Mr. President?

2009 Chickens and their 2010 Roost

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Twelve Anti-Family Gifts from Congress

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by Katherine Bradley, December 22, 2009
The Heritage Foundation

As Congress wraps up its final business for the year, there are at least a dozen detrimental policies included in the omnibus spending bill recently signed into law by the President. Taken as a whole, these policies devalue human life, weaken civil society, and undermine the family. Unfortunately, these provisions have largely gone unnoticed by the general public.

The Dirty Dozen

The Fiscal Year 2010 Omnibus Appropriations bill passed by Congress includes a slew of offensive items:

  1. Elimination of abstinence education. Despite polling showing the vast majority of parents want their children to be taught that abstinence is best,[1] the omnibus defunds the abstinence-based education program. In its place Congress creates another condom-based sex education program.
  2. Spreading the wealth. The omnibus bill, as well as the other appropriation measures that have passed this year, represent a fulfillment of President Obama’s promise to “spread the wealth.” His 2010 budget reflects a 30 percent increase over President Bush’s last year in office on means-tested welfare programs such as housing, food stamps, and health care. Unfortunately, these programs do little or nothing to help recipients move off of the welfare rolls and into jobs where they can achieve independence and provide for their families. Continue reading »
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